Tuktut Nogait National Park

Introducing Tuktut Nogait National Park

Paulatuk is the closest settlement to this park, a wild place about 45km east that’s a major calving ground for Bluenose caribou. There are no services or facilities here; however a small visitors center for the park is open for inspection in town during the summer. For information, contact Parks Canada (867-777-8800; 187 Mackenzie Rd; 8:30am-5pm Jun-Aug, call ahead at other times) in Inuvik.

Banks Island

Lying in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Paulatuk, Banks Island may have been first inhabited 3500 years ago. By polar standards wildlife is abundant, and this is one of the best places on Earth to see musk ox. The island also has two bird sanctuaries with flocks of snowgeese and seabirds in the summer. Sachs Harbour, an Inuvialuit community of about 120, is the only settlement. Contact the hamlet office (867-690-4351) for information. There is a scheduled air service to Sachs Harbour from Inuvik.

Last updated: Feb 17, 2009